Yes. When one university decides to stop filtering SPAM the entire world's infrastructure has effectively been shut down. Oh wait... no.
My UIC account gets NO spam (because I don't give it to anyone:), so I think that responibility is the key to keeping email working. Adding some numbers (*sigh*) helps guard against random address guessing.
Anyway I don't see anyone stopping you from using your own SPAM filter. Let's not blow this out of proportion, please.
He was implying that nobody buys Windows. Which is true... one of my friends said this to me "Linux is nice, but Windows is free too. If I had to buy it I'd use Linux..."
I'm the only person I know that has a legal copy (and I have NEVER had a Windows partition in my life... I used MacOS before I switched to Linux) because M$ sent me some brainwashing kit for UNIX developers or something to that effect.
Yup. People should stop playing around with these toy distributions. Install Debian and you can forget about all of these problems. Easy updates, too. And, you can choose between stability and new-ness quite easily. I run "unstable" and haven't had a problem (and everything is nice and new).
I would recommend setting up a Linux (or OpenBSD) box with three ethernet cards such that eth0 is your internal network, eth1 is your vonage box, and eth2 is the WAN. Then configure iptables/pf to drop packets on the eth0eth2 route when the eth1eth2 route is "full". This is called QoS, I'm sure there are some nice HOWTOs that will help with this.
Even if you don't pay for phone service, the phone company has to provide 911. So when the power is out just use that phone that's still plugged in for the purpose of 911. Isn't government regulation great:)
Yes. However, someone should try running Windows98 under QEMU. QEMU can emulate an x86 host now (I installed Windows Server 2003 under QEMU and it worked fine; it was usuable in speed), and it runs on ARM machines. Bochs isn't really good for much anymore, QEMU beats it in everything.
(In case you're wondering QEMU can emulate PREP and x86 hosts and run on ARM, PPC, x86, SPARC, and more. It can also translate (for example) Linux/x86 binaries to run on PPC so you can use wine on a PPC. As I said, it's really really cool. Take a look at their site or the OS Support Table. Have fun!)
It's sites like those that make me happy that I spend most of my time on slashdot. Users of those sites seem to always be afraid of doing something illegal. Hence, someone posts an article on how to transfer a file you own to a device you own and everyone cries about how illegal this is and how the host site is going to be sued to death etc. Then someone replies with a comment that says where to get a file (GASP!! HOW ILLEGAL!!!!) and some goody-two-shoes replies with "admin, please delete all links!!!!:(:(:(" and the whole thread is deleted and everyone who posted banned.
Once, I was participating in a discussion about the CF driver for NX70 Clies and I said something like "If it's too expensive, warez it." I was banned from loading the site!!! Rather than refuting my argument, they just deleted it. Again, when Decuma came out, someone posted a link to a "warez" version. Any reference to that or the fact that the thread ever existed got you banned. What a bunch of fucking babies.
So anyway, thank you slashdot, for not deleting posts. I'm glad that people are forced to reply and think about their actions rather than just delete anything they don't like.
I'm pretty sure (in Illinois) that you don't need any permit to run CAT5 cable. I had an antenna/wireless bridge/cat5 installed when I got internet (no shitty DSL/cable for me:) and nobody had any permits.
Also, it won't injure anyone if it's installed incorrectly (aside from people without autocrossover switches injuring themselves when they realize that everything in the house is *CROSSOVER* cable*), unlike 120V mains power. Basically I don't see any problem
* The morons that built the house ran just 1 cat5 line to each room. This is for phone only (yay I can have 4 phone lines in each room). They did feel the need, however, to have three coax connections to each room. Except the satellite installer decided that screwing in the satellite connector to the house coax-distribution board was too much work so he *drilled holes in the floor* of the rooms instead. If you want it done right, do it yourself. Fuck legality.
> Facts is facts, there are Linux security issues, FreeBSD security issues, even OpenBSD security issues (although much more rare), as well as other miscellaneous bugs and compatibility issues.
Tell me this when my Linux/BSD box is owned by a spammer. "Facts is [sic] facts", my Linux box doesn't get viruses but every Windows box I seem to encounter does. So, it looks to me that Linux doesn't have the security issues that Windows does.
> Often it can be more time consuming to patch Linux, too - find and download RPM, potentially requiring you to find and download dependencies, etc., and installing, while in Windows, for most users, it's "click on Windows update button."
Yes. That damn apt-get upgrade is too hard to type!!!!!
If that really is the case, then I have stumbled upon a revelation. COMPUTERS AREN'T TOYS FOR STUPID PEOPLE. Windows is usuable by stupid people, but it's insecure. Linux is unusuable by stupid people, but it's secure. So obviously stupid people cannot have a secure computer. Hmm. PICNIC - Problem In Chair, Not In Computer. Interesting.
> But, we need the Windows software.
Yeah right. For what? Uber-porndialer 3.15? I see.
It doesn't help. A full nmap run will take maybe thirty seconds. Any script kiddie can scan you. Also, you probably shouldn't be worried about script kiddies. They won't know what ssh is. Someone may really want your data, and changing ports ain't gonna stop 'em from trying to get at it.
It does break all internet standards, though. That's always a great thing (*rolls eyes and looks at M$*)
Illegally ripping protection? Illegal? An example of an illegal act is murder. Violating an EULA is not illegal.
Sorry, wording like that pisses me off. It's not a crime to rape/murder* YOUR files. (Maybe breach of contract, but if they want to sue me over a $0.99 song, then whatever.)
* This is the RIAA's new term for listening to music. Additionally, it refers to stripping the DRM out of a file. (How is playing a file to another file any different than playing it to a speaker?)
Stastically, AMD isn't doing anything new really. However, in terms of mindshare, they're doing quite well. Remember the X86-64 spec? Intel seems to have copied AMD. This shows that AMD is ahead in something.
Frankly, whoever gives me a 5GHz 64-bit processor for $100 first wins in my mind:-D
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It's available for finding in the directory. I don't give it to websites, etc., though.
I forgot to read the article, though. Having read it I have only one comment... "Das est nicht gut." Then again neither is my German...
> Is this the end of email?
:), so I think that responibility is the key to keeping email working. Adding some numbers (*sigh*) helps guard against random address guessing.
Yes. When one university decides to stop filtering SPAM the entire world's infrastructure has effectively been shut down. Oh wait... no.
My UIC account gets NO spam (because I don't give it to anyone
Anyway I don't see anyone stopping you from using your own SPAM filter. Let's not blow this out of proportion, please.
Yeah... how is moving a song from your computer to your iPod any different from moving a song to your phone?
No, those are the guys whose genitals are falling off because they have no fewer than five STDs. And they're failing Math 070.
He was implying that nobody buys Windows. Which is true... one of my friends said this to me "Linux is nice, but Windows is free too. If I had to buy it I'd use Linux..."
I'm the only person I know that has a legal copy (and I have NEVER had a Windows partition in my life... I used MacOS before I switched to Linux) because M$ sent me some brainwashing kit for UNIX developers or something to that effect.
Yup. People should stop playing around with these toy distributions. Install Debian and you can forget about all of these problems. Easy updates, too. And, you can choose between stability and new-ness quite easily. I run "unstable" and haven't had a problem (and everything is nice and new).
Also, my partition table isn't f00bar'd.
Your DSL router is probably NAT.
I would recommend setting up a Linux (or OpenBSD) box with three ethernet cards such that eth0 is your internal network, eth1 is your vonage box, and eth2 is the WAN. Then configure iptables/pf to drop packets on the eth0eth2 route when the eth1eth2 route is "full". This is called QoS, I'm sure there are some nice HOWTOs that will help with this.
Even if you don't pay for phone service, the phone company has to provide 911. So when the power is out just use that phone that's still plugged in for the purpose of 911. Isn't government regulation great :)
Yes. However, someone should try running Windows98 under QEMU. QEMU can emulate an x86 host now (I installed Windows Server 2003 under QEMU and it worked fine; it was usuable in speed), and it runs on ARM machines. Bochs isn't really good for much anymore, QEMU beats it in everything.
(In case you're wondering QEMU can emulate PREP and x86 hosts and run on ARM, PPC, x86, SPARC, and more. It can also translate (for example) Linux/x86 binaries to run on PPC so you can use wine on a PPC. As I said, it's really really cool. Take a look at their site or the OS Support Table. Have fun!)
It's sites like those that make me happy that I spend most of my time on slashdot. Users of those sites seem to always be afraid of doing something illegal. Hence, someone posts an article on how to transfer a file you own to a device you own and everyone cries about how illegal this is and how the host site is going to be sued to death etc. Then someone replies with a comment that says where to get a file (GASP!! HOW ILLEGAL!!!!) and some goody-two-shoes replies with "admin, please delete all links!!!! :( :( :(" and the whole thread is deleted and everyone who posted banned.
Once, I was participating in a discussion about the CF driver for NX70 Clies and I said something like "If it's too expensive, warez it." I was banned from loading the site!!! Rather than refuting my argument, they just deleted it. Again, when Decuma came out, someone posted a link to a "warez" version. Any reference to that or the fact that the thread ever existed got you banned. What a bunch of fucking babies.
So anyway, thank you slashdot, for not deleting posts. I'm glad that people are forced to reply and think about their actions rather than just delete anything they don't like.
Send me a link to a place where I can buy XP64. Oh wait, you can't...
I like PICNIC better myself. Problem in chair, not in computer :)
Here's my accurate answer: STOP USING WINDOWS.
Seriously, if you want stable you're using the wrong OS. "Ohh but it's so shinny."
I see.
I didn't know that. I'm a n00b ):
But they could have used the coax that was already in the walls, right. Drilling through the floor sounds like a laziness thing to me.
I'm pretty sure (in Illinois) that you don't need any permit to run CAT5 cable. I had an antenna/wireless bridge/cat5 installed when I got internet (no shitty DSL/cable for me :) and nobody had any permits.
Also, it won't injure anyone if it's installed incorrectly (aside from people without autocrossover switches injuring themselves when they realize that everything in the house is *CROSSOVER* cable*), unlike 120V mains power. Basically I don't see any problem
* The morons that built the house ran just 1 cat5 line to each room. This is for phone only (yay I can have 4 phone lines in each room). They did feel the need, however, to have three coax connections to each room. Except the satellite installer decided that screwing in the satellite connector to the house coax-distribution board was too much work so he *drilled holes in the floor* of the rooms instead. If you want it done right, do it yourself. Fuck legality.
My broadband is provided over 802.11b and I've never had any problems*. In fact, for $30 a month I get 2Mbps down and 256Kbps up!!
I guess maybe you were farther away from the station or didn't have as good of an antenna.
* Lightning hit the main transmitting station once and we were offline while all the equpment was replaced. But what can you do...
Pentabyte hard drives? I think I have quite a few of those around (pentabyte = 5 bytes)
Heh nice hardware address. Mine is cooler though :)
:)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr DE:AD:BA:BE:CA:FE
inet addr:143.195.110.18 Bcast:143.195.110.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:459457 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:295450 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:506790219 (483.3 MiB) TX bytes:34725675 (33.1 MiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000
Oh yeah. The dead babe cafe
> Facts is facts, there are Linux security issues, FreeBSD security issues, even OpenBSD security issues (although much more rare), as well as other miscellaneous bugs and compatibility issues.
Tell me this when my Linux/BSD box is owned by a spammer. "Facts is [sic] facts", my Linux box doesn't get viruses but every Windows box I seem to encounter does. So, it looks to me that Linux doesn't have the security issues that Windows does.
> Often it can be more time consuming to patch Linux, too - find and download RPM, potentially requiring you to find and download dependencies, etc., and installing, while in Windows, for most users, it's "click on Windows update button."
Yes. That damn apt-get upgrade is too hard to type!!!!!
If that really is the case, then I have stumbled upon a revelation. COMPUTERS AREN'T TOYS FOR STUPID PEOPLE. Windows is usuable by stupid people, but it's insecure. Linux is unusuable by stupid people, but it's secure. So obviously stupid people cannot have a secure computer. Hmm. PICNIC - Problem In Chair, Not In Computer. Interesting.
> But, we need the Windows software.
Yeah right. For what? Uber-porndialer 3.15? I see.
Netcraft confirms that ZIP-based algorithms don't compress images. JPEG does.
:)
Also, gzip? rar? Puh-lease. Try bzip2. It's the best (and Free, of course)
> For Addresses, a directv installer taught me that if you live in a house, just make up a unit number if they verify by unique addresses.
:)
I did this to get two rebates on RAM from Circuit City. Worked like a charm. ($60 for 1024M PC2700... nice!!).
Used the same credit card for both, but the nitwits didn't figure it out.
Umm, they're a CABLE company. Their business model is to profit by selling you things (channels) that you don't want. This isn't much different.
It doesn't help. A full nmap run will take maybe thirty seconds. Any script kiddie can scan you. Also, you probably shouldn't be worried about script kiddies. They won't know what ssh is. Someone may really want your data, and changing ports ain't gonna stop 'em from trying to get at it.
It does break all internet standards, though. That's always a great thing (*rolls eyes and looks at M$*)
Illegally ripping protection? Illegal? An example of an illegal act is murder. Violating an EULA is not illegal.
Sorry, wording like that pisses me off. It's not a crime to rape/murder* YOUR files. (Maybe breach of contract, but if they want to sue me over a $0.99 song, then whatever.)
* This is the RIAA's new term for listening to music. Additionally, it refers to stripping the DRM out of a file. (How is playing a file to another file any different than playing it to a speaker?)
Stastically, AMD isn't doing anything new really. However, in terms of mindshare, they're doing quite well. Remember the X86-64 spec? Intel seems to have copied AMD. This shows that AMD is ahead in something.
:-D
Frankly, whoever gives me a 5GHz 64-bit processor for $100 first wins in my mind